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December 22, 2008

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We mainlanders seem likely to learn quite a bit about ordinary, non-postcard Hawaii, which Obama's vacations seem to inhabit.

From Jeff Zeleny's pool report on Obama's long afternoon golfing:

As for Mr. Obama and his group, a snack bar clerk later confirmed that he purchased two hot dogs, two spam musubi, two passion orange sodas, one Powerade and one coke, for a tab of $17.75.

Wikipedia describes the spam musubi as "a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi is composed of a block of salted (not vinegared; that would be sushi) rice with a slice of Spam (cooked or uncooked) on top, and typically nori (dried seaweed) surrounding it to keep it in shape."

Look - It's all about change! Change Change Change! Obama would never act like an elite - so he eats the spam and stays in a modest residence. That's what makes him great he's just like one of us. He's not like them (grrr) republicans - Err - oh he is staying in the $800 a week residence right for vacation? Oh crap - NOTHING HAS CHANGED AT ALL - IT'S THE 8 MILLION DOLLAR RESIDENCE - Oh how you Dem's were fooled. NOTHING has changed at all!!! At Least the Repub. tell who they are and then act it out - Obama promises change and gives us 8,000,000 dollar home to vacation in? Sad and disgusting. How many welfare moms gave 5 dollars here and there to the campaign and then this. And oh, what about the message this sends to those losing their jobs who supported him as the economy continues to crumble. So, go ahead and eat that spam Mr. Obama and enjoy your stay - it is absolute direct evidence that you are just MORE OF THE SAME! What a slap in the face!

All I can say to this article is SO WHAT. It just gives the hypocritical Right a chance to bash Obama. The Right can not for a minute comprehend that Obama is FROM Hawaii and that for Obama to go there is kinda like our current President. going to his home state of Texas for christmas. They still forget that Hawaii is a state, just like Texas, part of the United States.So all I can say to this story and all the hate is .... So What

The banks won?t tell us what they did with our money. (They refuse. Check the article.)

The only bank that slightly answered it was JPMorgan Chase. Know what they said? (brace yourself, this is gonna really p*ss you off):

They said they will lend 5 billion NEXT year to nonprofits and Health Care companies (WTF?) Yep. You read that right.

They took your money, and are going to lend it to nonprofits and companies next year. The rest of the banks refuse to tell us what they did with our money.

That is going to do us a lot of good, huh? Lending our money to COMPANIES. What happened to the part where they were supposed to lend OUR money back to US? (Yea, how stupid is that? Just GIVE it back to US.)

Congress just got a RAISE, out of your money (while we are losing our jobs and scared how to pay our bills next month.)

The big 3 and the UAW want YOUR money so they can continue their stupidity with business as usual.

Yet, Washington won?t slash our taxes to give us MORE of OUR money for US to use to help ourselves.

But by all means, glad the banks are going to lend your money to nonprofits and Health Care companies, or refuse to tell you AT ALL what they did with your money..

That sure is a HELP for us out here struggling to pay our bills.

And now, another group is coming to the table with their hands out for money. Know who? Real Estate Developers. The guys who made money hand over fist when people were buying homes.

Great. Just great.

Call your reps and tell them NO MORE STUPIDITY. Not another NICKEL to anyone until they slash our taxes. Let US keep OUR money and spend it to help ourselves and OUR families.

It is our money that WE earned. Those guys didn?t earn it. But they sure like spending it and giving to lots of others who didn?t earn it, either.

About time the press started bashing Obama. They gave him a free pass on the election and refused to vet him. Now when they look under the hood all they find is SPAM! Obama's substance is SPAM! What does the press report on his actions on the ecomomy - SPAM. What is the solution to the economic downturn? EAT MORE SPAM and GET USED TO IT!

It's very sad to see children who don't listen find out critical information after they've intentionally ignored it. It's even sadder to watch adults who do it. If you didn't know Obama and his family were well off and lived that way I guess it would be shocking to you to view evidence of it now. Obama informed the world of his past and present. If you were caught up in the parallel of his past to your present then shame on you, not him. There is public record of his home's value, the private school his children attend and will attend, the fact that he is a US Senator - all the proof was there - but I guess you were too busy looking for a fictional, international, birth certificate, while assigning him a personality and ignoring everything he said. You've got to be a member of the o'rushanity reicht pretending to be an affronted lefty. Btw, his books' sales shot up after his election win pouring even more money into his private coffers. He has more money than he's ever had in his life - even in these bleak, economic times. So what, he's staying in a multi-million dollar Hawaiin home, with friends - on his last vacation before he takes office. He and his family are about to temporarily possess one of the few truly priceless, ELITE, residences in the world! Oh yeah, and if you or members of the short-sighted, pandering media bothered to note that Obama, his win, and Cabinet selections, have had a mostly positive, calming effect on the economy after some sharp, breath-takingly, steep and protracted declines then maybe we'd read a more generous analysis in your comments. Signed: eagerly awaiting the official start of the phoenix administration, and to you know who, thanks for the ashes. x0x0x0x0

You know what I hate about blogs, if you are to scared to at least put your first name on what you are writing, maybe you shouldn't write it. It seems people on the far right wacko planets never like to put their real name on something. What's wrong? Don't you have a name? Just put your stupid name.

Nice try, chicago truth squad, but Obama is from Illinois, not Hawaii (hasn't lived there in decades), so it's not really analagous to Bush going to his home in Texas.

I really don't care much where Obama goes on vacation. Or that he rents an $8 million home for his vacation. But from a PR perspective it's not the cleverest thing to do while the country is facing tough economic times. Kind of like the CEOs of the Big Three taking private jets to DC to ask for a bailout.

tanya, tina, tina, tanya. Sounds very similar to me, tina, I mean tanya. Oh wow, you're reduced to personal attacks about a person's name. Are these critics in touch with Obama's travel agent? Does anyone even know whether or not he's a guest of the mansion's owner in Hawaii? Why care? The attack dogs are so ready to jump on anything the PE says or does. Don't you have Xmassy things to do? Don't you have a life, family to attend to? Maybe that explains your obsession with all things Obama. You really, really care!!!!

One of my favorite dishes is Spam and scalloped potatoes. Very good and thrifty. Try it. It's a comfort food on a cold winter day. Obama is renting a 30 million dollar house. What do you expect? A shack? Truman vacationed in Florida altho he was from Missouri; FDR at Warm Springs and he was from NY state, Clinton never did go back to Ark, did he? I really don't think we repubs are complaining about Obama's vacation. You dems are complaining about our complaining even tho we are not complaining. You are the ones complaining. Get it? Would you want to be in Chicago now?